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Patented Oct. 10, 1950 AUTOMATIC SHAKEOUT MACHINE FOR FLASK TYPE MOLDS Walton L. Woody, Shaker Heights, Ohio, and

Beauiord E. Gavin, Sr., Indianapolis, Ind., assignors to National Malleable and Steel Castings Company, Cleveland, Ohio, a corporation Application March 23, 1948, Serial No. 16,498

Claims. (Cl. 22-1) This invention relates to automatic shakeout machines for flask type molds.

In the production of metal castings by the use of sand molds formed in flasks having separable bottom boards, it is a usual practice for the molders to place the molds with their flasks, either manually or with the aid or mechanical means, on a suitable form of endless conveyor so that the flasks will be carried successively through the pouring, cooling, and shakeout zones. The same conveyor may be employed for returning the empt flasks to the molding zone for reuse. The mold conveyor may be driven so as to cause the flasks to travel continuously or intermittently, depending on such factors as the sizes of the castings being produced and/or the facilities employed for pouring and for shaking out the castings and sand from the flasks.

The operations that are performed at the shakeout zone of such a flask type mold conveyor system create working conditions that are as bad as, if not worse than, those encountered at any other location in a modern foundry, This is due to the large amount of fine mold sand that is released to the atmosphere as dust each time a flask is emptied, and to the laborious nature of the work. The usual practice is to employ two or more men, at a relatively high hourly rate. to perform the required operations at the shakeout zone.

It is a primary object 01' this invention to provide a machine which will operate entirely automatically, and in properly timed relation to the travel of a flask type mold conveyor, to remove the molds and their flasks from the conveyor, as they reach the shakeout zone; to carry the molds and flasks to a location over a vibrating screen or grid, employed for separating the sand from the hot castings, or to a location over a conveyor leading to such a vibrating screen or grid; to dislodge the sand and castings from the flasks at said location; and to return the empty flasks to the same conveyor.

A further important object of the invention is the provision of a fully automatic shakeout machine for a continuously traveling flask type mold conveyor which will function to remove a mold and its flask from a given conveyor tray as the latter reaches the shakeout zone; to dislodge the sand and casting from the flask; to replace the empty flask on the same conveyor tray, which in the meantime has traveled to a new location; and to condition the machine to perform the same series of operations for the mold and flask carried by the next succeeding conveyor tray as it reaches the shakeout zone.

Another primary object of the invention is to provide a fully automatic shakeout machine for flask type molds which will function without adjustments to remove the sand and castings from a series of continuously advancing flasks which may vary in size within a given range and regardless of the order or sequence in which the diflerent sized'flasks reach the shakeout machine.

A still further important object or the invention is the provision of a machine which will operate entirely automatically, and in properly timed relation to the continuous travel of a flask type mold conveyor, to perform a complete shakeout operation on each flask as it is presented to the machine by the conveyor; each one of said complete shakeout operations comprising lifting the mold and its flask from its conveyor tray while permitting the bottom board of the flask to remain on the tray; carrying the flask to a location paralleling the path of travel of the conveyor;

,dislodging the casting and sand from the flask supported for movements longitudinally, and

transversely of the direction of travel oi! the mold conveyor served by the machine so that the flasks, as they are successively presented to the machine,

.. may be picked up and carried to a shakeout location laterally of the conveyor path and then returned to the same position on the conveyor.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a fully automatic shakeout machine for serving a continuously traveling flask type mold conveyor in which the flask handling mechanism of the machine is moved both laterally and iongitudinally of the direction of travel of the conveyor to enable the flasks to be carried to a shakeout location paralleling the conveyor path and then returned to the continuously traveling conveyor, and in which the said movable flask handling mechanism is so connected to the continuously traveling conveyor, during the portion of each shakeout cycle when a flask is separated from the conveyor, that each empty flask will be returned to the exact position on the conveyor from which it was removed.

Other objects and advantages of the invention 

